Where do you all keep your recipes?

[BoatsAndHoes]

So I have been collecting any recipes I like since I was 19 (35 now) - just writing them in an A4 hardbacked notebook. But it's been looking pretty tatty and stained the past couple of years, and this morning as I was making my famous Mexican pasta salad the back came off completely.

I thought about putting the pages in those A4 plastic sleeves inside a folder, does anyone else have any solutions?

o/t I would love your Mexican pasta salad recipe… 😬

I do what you mentioned - plastic A4 sleeves inside a ring file. Now and then I ‘weed’ the ones that didn’t turn out brilliantly, or that I know I won’t use again. Mine are mostly printed off the internet.

On my phone - either bookmarked on the internet or in the photo gallery if it's a recipe I've seen in magazine/wrote out years ago.

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I have a couple of these and have categories such as starters, seafood, Indian, veggie etc. One of my big lockdown projects was going through my old magazines and notebooks and filing them into these!

A thing of the past but a lovely tradition.

I usually get a recipe by thinking I would like to make a certain thing, watching some youtube videos, making it, and then tweaking it and then it just becomes one of the recipes in my repertoire.

Curious why you keep them this way, is it as a hobby or do not remember how to make things and have to refer back? Once I've made something I can make it ad infinitum.

Or do you make complicated gourmet things?

i had a folder which had ripped out recipes that i wanted to try etc.

Most things i end up tweaking and no longer following a recipe but as ive gotten a little older and DD is now into cooking I have bought a hardback book where you fill in your own recipes. I thought it would be nice to put in my most loved meals etc so that when I am gone the kids/grandkids can recreate them!!

In a folder.
In the Copymethat app
Photographed in Google photos
Scraps of paper shoved on top of the bookcase full of recipe books in the kitchen that I never look at.

Sorry, not the answer you're looking for.

I'd love to be one of those people who isn't interested in food so eats the same 7 meals then when they get bored of them, asks on here for new ideas because they don't have a list of a thousand meals that they could make whizzing round in their head already. Sounds a lot simpler.

Joking aside, I find Copy Me That the easiest and is the one I use the most.

I use this:

https://www.paprikaapp.com/

I have the desktop version on my Mac and I have clients on my phones/ipad. Its not free but its the best recipe manager I've found which doesn't require an annual sub and supports multiple formats. It supports tagging for organisaiton and a decent search facility.

I can click to save recipes I find on line and sync across devices or write in my own recipes and share across plus everything is backed up.

I actually share my account with the DC who just have the phone version so they can add to it as well and use the tagging system.

My dh needs a recipe for bolognese
Some people do

Printed, laminated, live in a drawer. I stick them to the cupboard with bluetack when I use them. I also have a hardback ringbound notebook for new recipes which lives at the side of the microwave. It's got a bit tatty as it's soaked up spilled oil. Needs typing up.

I use a lever arch file and plastic sleeves. I keep far more recipes than I could commit to memory and many only get used occasionally, I'd never remember them all, especially not for baking when the quantities are critical. Most of mine are torn out of magazines. I have a weed out when it gets full, or I start noticing I've got several recipes for things that are essentially the same. I do keep an A5 notebook with some handwritten ones in, often where a friends has scribbled them down, or I've copied them off a MN post or similar but they could just as easily go on paper in a plastic sleeve.

I keep a word document in OneDrive. Recipes are filed under category and alphabetised within that. I love my cookbooks but if I like a recipe from a book enough to make it more than twice, I copy it into the digital file to keep my book clean and make my life easier. Likewise, I try recipes online once or twice and if I plan to make it a third time I'd copy it over.

I like that I can reference my recipes on my phone/tablet while I'm cooking and also look up the ingredients while I'm in the supermarket. I can also screenshot recipes to quickly share them with friends.

@knullrufs Just multiply ingredients by however many you want it to serve

I suppose it has become a bit of a hobby. It has some unusual recipes in it, it's not full of recipes like spaghetti Bolognese or stuff that I'd do often (that I can do without a recipe).
Pic of the Contents page for reference!

My aunt bought me a recipe book years and years ago. Its fab but lots are just book marked on my phone now.